Adam Draper took a break from college to start his first company, Xpert Financial, and has been fighting off the label "college dropout" ever since. His sister, Jesse Draper says she gets teased for being a "Valley Girl," but she's no ditzy, gum-chewing blonde. It can be tough being scions to Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capital family, but they make do.

Adam founded Boost VC, an unconventional startup incubator based in San Mateo, California. Jesse is the creator and host of The Valley Girl Show, an Internet video show that has become a snappy, runaway hit by producing playful interviews with famed entrepreneurs and investors like Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, and Sheryl Sandberg.

Despite their family’s powerful connections within Silicon Valley, Adam views his sister as his most crucial ally in making business introductions."When there is someone who I want to meet, I don’t ask my dad to make an introduction.I ask my sister," he told Upstart Business Journal.

The two siblings are the eldest children of Tim Draper, the legendary venture capitalist who co-founded Draper Fisher Jurvetson.Venture capital runs deep in the Draper bloodline.When Tim Draper co-founded Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1985, his early successes were largely overshadowed by his family name.His father and grandfather, William Draper III, had already built two venture capital firms, Draper & Johnson Investment Company and Draper, Gaither & Anderson, respectively.

Tim Draper then went on to turn Hotmail and Yahoo Mail! into unprecedented successes that framed viral marketing as a success strategy, and immediately became clear that Tim wasn’t just his dad’s kid.Adam said that after the Yahoo-Hotmail success people finally got over the previous generations’ shadows and saw a new one. "Oh, that’s Tim Draper’s dad," he recalled his friends saying.

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